CHAP, XLI. LEGUMINA CEH. AMO’RPHA. 607 
Prod., ii. p. 256.) The species are highly ornamental on account of their 
leaves, and more especially of their long spikes of flowers; which, though, 
when taken separately, they are small, and imperfect in regard to form, are yet 
rich from their number, and their colours of purple or violet, spangled with 
a golden yellow. The plants are not of long duration; and are liable to be 
broken by wind; for which reason they ought always to be planted in a shel- 
tered situation. They produce abundance of suckers, from which, and from 
cuttings of the root, they are very readily propagated. The several sorts 
that are in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, and in the arbo- 
retum of the Messrs. Loddiges, appear to us only varieties of one and the 
same species. 
% 1, A. FRuTICO'sA Lin. The shrubby Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 
Identification. Lin. Sp, 1003.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.256.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 234. 
Synonymes. Wild Indigo, Amer. ; faux Indigo, Fr., Strauchartiger Unform, Ger. 
Engravings. Schkuhr Handb., t. 197.; Mill. Icon., t.27.; Bot. Reg., 427.; Krauss. t.7.; N. 
Du Ham., 3. t. 36.; and our fig. 302. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Rather arborescent, some- 
what villose or glabrous. Leaflets elliptic- 
oblong, the lowest distant from the base of 
the petiole. Calyx somewhat villose; 4 of 
its teeth obtuse, 1 acuminate. The standard 
glandless. Legume few-seeded. (Dec. Prod., 
ii, p. 256.) A native of Carolina and Florida, 
on the banks of rivers, where it grows to 
the height of from 9 ft. to 12 ft. In Britain, 
it produces its long close spikes of fine, rich, 
very dark, bluish-purple flowers in June and 
July. It was introduced into Britain in 
1724, by Mark Catesby ; who states that the 
inhabitants of Carolina, at one time, made 
a sort of coarse indigo from the young 
shoots. It is now a common shrub in Eu- S 
ropean gardens; and Thunberg is said to have observed it in those of the 
Island of Nipon, in Japan. 

Varieties. 
& A. f. 2 angustifolia Pursh has the leaflets linear-elliptic. 
% A. f. 3 emargindia Pursh has the leaflets notched, and the calyx 
hoary. There is a plant of it in the garden of the London Horticul- 
tural Society. 
& A. f. 4 Lewisii Lodd. Cat., 1830, appears to have rather larger flowers 
and leaves than the species. There are finely flowering plants of it 
in the Goldworth Arboretum. 
2 A. f. 5 cerulea Lodd. Cat., 1830, has the flowers of somewhat a paler 
blue. There are plants of it in Loddiges’s arboretum. Perhaps it is 
only a variation of A. croceo-lanata. 
Commercial Statistics. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is 1s. 6d. 
each, and of seeds, Is. per oz.; at Bollwyller, plants are 50 cents each, or 
seedlings 10 francs for 50; at New York, plants are 374 cents each, and seeds 
4 dollars per lb. 
& 2. A. (F.) GLA‘BRA Desf. The glabrous Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 
Identification. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par., 192.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 256. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 234. 
Spec. Char., &c. Rather arborescent, glabrous. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, the lowest distant from the 
base of the petiole. Calyx glabrous, four of its teeth obtuse, one acuminate. Standard glanded on 
the outside. Legume containing few seeds. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 256) A shrub, growing from 3ft. to 
6 ft. high. Introduced in 1810, and flowering in July and August. 
a 3. A. (F.) NA‘NA Nutt. The dwarf Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 
sa ike Nutt. in Fras. Cat., 1813; Nov. Gen. Amer., 2. p.91.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 256.; Don’s 
ill., 2. p. 234, 
Synonyme. A. microph¥lla Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 466. 
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